Manipulation In Gone Girl

Susana Kaysen is a fictional character in the movie, Girl, Interrupted. She is an 18 year old young adult, who suffers from mental illness. Susana had multiple behaviors that can be defined as abnormal. Susana’s behaviors can be grouped into four categories. The first one is deviance, which is defined by behaviors that differ from society’s norms. Susana was known to be promiscuous and have multiple sexual relationships. One sexual relationship she had was with an older man, and it happened to be a teacher. Another behavior that can be seen as deviance is her unwanted desire to attend college. At her age and in the time of the movie, it was an expectation to attend college and receive a degree. However, Susana did not want to attend a university. Another deviant behavior is Susana’s substance abuse problem with alcohol, cigarettes, and pills. Susana also displayed deviance by not following the rules in the ward. She would not take her medication and she would sneak out. At one point she even escaped for several days. These deviant behaviors were Susana’s ways of acting out.

The novel East of Eden by John Steinbeck conveys multiple messages and themes. However, it is widely perceived as a cautionary tale, warning the reader of manipulation, and the true struggles of life. The reader is warned about manipulation mainly through the personality of Cathy as she feeds off of control and dominance. For example, the section in which Cathy is in some sort of relationship with Mr. Edwards, shows that she uses a human’s blindness by love against them. She began storing his money in a box for her to use at a later date, ready to leave Mr. Edwards when she didn’t need him and his resources anymore.

In Huxley’s well renowned novel, Brave New World, in an attempt to alter society, the government uses various techniques of psychological manipulation to control the way citizens think, behave, form their personalities, and live their lives. A huge theme in this novel is control and power. The leaders of the World State use various forms of manipulation to create an ideal utopia. Psychological manipulation is a type of social behavior that pursues to alter the actions of an individual through violent or devious undertakings. Manipulative behavior is not something that is easily identifiable because these individuals are usually good liars, are deviating, and only target vulnerable people. During every crisis such as World War I, the Great

Manipulation and More Manipulation In Scene One of Act Four of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice is angered by Don Pedro and Claudio’s hasty reactions and makes the irrational decision to beg Benedick to challenge Claudio to a duel. Don Pedro and Claudio announce the lies fed to them by Don John to those attending the wedding procession, causing Hero to faint of embarrassment and despair. After the public shaming of Hero, Beatrice and Benedick have a long conversation about Beatrice’s sorrow and Hero’s shattered reputation. Beatrice begins her manipulation of Benedick: “Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that would right her!”

Nick finally gets to know Gatsby on a more intimate level and sees how he is so full of hope and dreams and a need to create this back story of his life and how he went from war hero to a self made millionaire. Nick can see that he is only self made in his mind but that Gatsby is so desperate for him to believe him. But there is something inherently sincere about him even though he lives in an illusion he has created. When it’s all boiled down, the real reason he had done all this and his main motivation in life is to win a girl back-Daisy. He needs Nick because of his relationship with Daisy and that he can be the conduit for him to see her and win her back.

The emotions are based off dialogue and Gene’s own feelings. Comparatively, in The Great Gatsby the author conveys emotion by creating a certain atmosphere and putting across what others are going through by the use of appropriate imagery. Nick refers to the downfall of the Great Gatsby as “A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.” (161). This very powerful use of imagery helps create a melancholic atmosphere to represent the struggles of the Great Gatsby at that moment in the book. Nick is not just very aware of his surroundings but the people around him and the emotions that are going through them. For example, when he reveals the interior struggles of a successful Jay Gatsby through imagery: “But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.” (99) As a result of Fitzgerald’s use of imagery in the narrative voice Nick’s characterization is emphasized. Even if Nick does not take part in the plot he is important as through the powerful

It has often been said that betrayal is the most definitive strike one can lay on a person. Though many words have a perceived or attached negative connotation that can be supplanted with context or appear better in a certain light, the word betrayal continuously leaves a sharp, undesirable reaction, regardless of the contextual usage. When used appositely as a literary device, the concept of betrayal is best explored through the lens of its inherit dishonesty. Betrayal is disparaging because it only exists in a relationship built on a foundation of respect, loyalty, and trust. In the psychotic thriller novel The Girl on the Train, written by Paula Hawkins, Rachel Watson, a young and enthusiastic woman learns her husband and the love of her

Earlier this year I watched "Snatched," a film starring Amy Schemer. Although, directed as a comedy film mainly focusing on the characters, Snatched manages to depict a few travel and tourism concepts. This movie is about a young lady who losses her job and has a failed relationship. During her relationship, she had originally planned a trip to Ecuador. Her mother ends up joining her daughter on the trip. After just one night in Ecuador, the two women are kidnapped.

“People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality.” Douglas Rushkoff. The world is full of manipulation and probably will never change. We are constantly seduced by what others say, and believe what they do. Well, this situation also applies to the book I read, The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. This story is set in Prentisstown, a small section of the New World. The Old World has become difficult to live in, and people started moving to a New World. Sounds weird and unusual, but it’s okay for now. Right? Well, things start getting more peculiar, when we find out that all women were killed by disease, and only men live in Prentisstown. What gets more unusual, is that men can hear each other’s thoughts! However, things start changing when we find out that women were not killed by the spackles, and the men and boys were manipulated to follow what their leader says or do. In my opinion, I think that the theme of this story is that the world is full of

Nick is from the upper midwest and potentially raised from the typical midwestern values. Most of the midwestern being very conservative, or traditional, likely gives Nick yet another reason to be closeted, out of fear of social rejection, since he is determined to make his way in the social world. “A decade of loneliness, a thinning list of young men to know.” (Fitzgerald, 81). He relies on being social to withhold his social status he has built up overtime, although he does believe “‘they’re [Tom, Daisy and Jordan] a rotten crowd’” (160). When Nick describes the female characters he is around, he speaks of Jordans “erect carriage” (8), how Daisy speaks, and Myrtles’ lack of beauty. Only while describing the men in the book, both Gatsby and Tom, he spends time to deeply talk about their features, their smiles, their eyes, their bodies, how they stand, the look of dominance, etc.

Psychological manipulation plays a huge role in this novel, considering that the characters in this novel can be punished for thinking about something. Which is called Thoughtcrime. In order to keep people the same in every room you can think of there’s a telescreen that plays constant propaganda. They are also used to monitor each individual’s actions. When out and about you are also surrounded by constant propaganda on the streets with Big Brothers face plastered on them and with the quote “Big Brother is watching you”. There are also spies who are used to spy on people who look or may be perceived as disloyal to The Party. They target children by brainwashing and encouraging them into thinking they’re doing a good thing by spying on their

In Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn creates a world full of distasteful characters to show how their manipulating behaviour is a result of their dissatisfaction. Each time one of the characters try to lie and manipulate others or even themselves, it reflects on how unhappy they are with their situation thins. And it is because of this that the more dissatisfied you are, the more inclined you are to hurt and try to control your environment.

Gone Girl is written from two point of views which are from the wife, Amy, and the husband, Nick. The story starts on the 5th anniversary of Nick and Amy's marriage. Amy runs away making look like a kidnapping but with just enough clues to make it look like a murder. For example there is a staged crime scene and the closer you look there is more and more faults in it like the photos on the mantel place should have tipped over not stay upright. We are lead through both of their struggles and we see how easily it is to manipulate someone when you have a plan like Amy did. This manipulation is a theme and can be related to puppets as a metaphor.

system, there is a “gift of grace” (8) which means that you are either chosen by God or not chosen, and there is no way of knowing. However, “good works” (8) is the belief that through intense worldly activity (working all the time to serve God), you may see success, and this is an indication of the “gift of grace”. Fred Phelps interpreted this, spreading the message all throughout his life that “fags” are hated by God, and his calling was to work, as a duty to god, to be “moral and worldly” (8). Becoming socially worldly is not an easy task, but Phelps likely saw that his work being represented in the media was a success, and he was therefore on the right path, which cyclically reinforced his beliefs and values.

“I woke feverish, panicky. Guilty. I do feel guilty. Just not guilty enough” (Hawkins. 56). Betrayal, a word defined as an act of deliberate disloyalty, can be found as being the central theme of the novel The Girl on the Train written by Paula Hawkins. This novel creates a plotline nothing short of a betrayal. The following will be an analysis of the novel, a story written about three women. Rachel, the girl on the train. Megan, the girl who is being watched by the girl on the train, and Anna, the girl who stole the girl on the train’s life. This will show the events based on a betrayal and dishonesty point of view and will be analyzed through the following literary devices: symbolism, tone, and mood as well as, foreshadowing and flashbacks.